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CENTRAL THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

AT 5.15 and 9.30 ONLY

THE GREATEST PRIZE WINNER NÖVEL BECOMES THA GREATEST SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR

HE FOUGHT FOR MAN.. andlostawoman!

No other age

Could have

told this story... No other world has known such a man-fighting humanity's battles...his restless mind searching for truth ... his t steadfast heart, chinging to the woman whose love he lost in his hour of triumph.

SAMUEL, GOLDWYN

presenti

RONALD

COLMAN

ArrowsmITHTM

WITH

HELEN HAYES

FROM THE NOVEL BY

SINCLAIR LEWIS

JOHN FORD APPOINTION

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

A PICTURE NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO MISS

DAILY AT 2.30 & 715

RE-SCREENING OF THE CHINESE SUPER TALKIE

"HAPPY STARS”

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST

RETURN SHOWING OF

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HONG

• KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1932.

LAST TWO DAYS

· AT 2.80, 8:10, 7.10 & 9,80 P.M.

KING'S THEATRE

Smash Went The Laugh Record

The whole town went wild “with...: “Bill” last might No wonder astions rocked and kingdom shook with laughter.

WILL ROGERS

in

AMBASSADOR BILL

Greta Nissen. • Marguerite Churchill Gustur von Seyfertica Directed by SAMI TAYLOR

A Fox Pictur

24 HOURS" AND ITS.

DIRECTOR.

CLEVER AND PERSISTENT RUSSIAN

A trade notice states:

To the many nad varied "breaks”- accredited with making stars and directors of photoplays from or- dinary people, must now be added the rather bizarre situation in

THE GREATEST CHINESE TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN which one man was "ribboć" ta

HUMANITY

4J

"ARROWSMITH"" AT eminent writer on medical subjects.

All of the authentic material con.

CENTRAL THEATRE.tained in the book and the picture

SINCLAIR LEWIS STORY SENSATION.

A. tænde notice slates:--- "Arrowsmith." Samuel Goldwyn's. picturò starring Ronald Colman L the pruuding young dector; now at the Central Theatre to be shown at 5.15 and 0.30 p.m. for the last two days, is acknowledged to be the innaterpiece of Sinclair Lewis who is the Brat Ameriona novelist ever to be awarded Nobel Prize. Even before he received that world wide honour last year, he had been' known for ten years as a leader of American literature.

was supplied by Dr. de Kruif, whoan books Microbe Huntera" and Hunger Fighters" have been best sellers almost, as popular as Lewis' own.

"Arrowsmith"

was one of the inues which led to the famous quarrel last year between Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser at the Metropolitan Club, Draiser claim- ing that the project had been offer- ed to him before it was to Lowis and that he had refused it.

Adaptation by Howard.

Sidney Howard, the Pulitzer Prize playwright who has done the adapting to the screen of all Ronald

Hip "Main Street" and "Babiit" Colman's talking pictures, asserted, added new words to the American after finishing the adaptation of language and had a large part in “Arrowsmith," that Sinclair Lewis' peveloping the current. interest in method of writing makes his books Europe in contemporary American ideal from the technical point of literature. His books have been view for the screen. Their vivid translated into almost every civiliz characterization, "episodic treatment pď language and have sold over of and rapid action, he said, left the million capica sil veer the world. adapter little to do but concentrate Dodsworth." and "The Man Who the action and out out minor de Know Coolidge" are other words, tails. but Arrowsmith, his story of mankind's battle against discann and prajudiev, stands in the front rank of his achievements.

John Ford, director of the famous "The Iron Horse," had charge of the protection of" Arrowsmith, United Artists picture, for Samuci Goldwyn. Besides Bonald Colm The notion of writing a novel in the leading role, the cant con- about a plague fighting here came tags Helen Hayes, Richard Ben

Dr. de Kruit Aided Lawis..

to him from Dr. Paul de Kruif, nett, A. E. Anson, Beulah Bondi

famous basteriologist – and I and Myrna Loy.

the

recognition.

When Marion Gering, one of Hollywood's new directors, first tame to America after winning success in the modern Russian theatrical movement, he was armed with a letter to a man, he believed

to be a great stage produeer.

'AMBASSADOR

BILL."

WILL ROGERS AT HIS BEST.

Lä woe to

Ambassador Bill," be expected, is an outstanding film because the leading role is taken by none other than Will Rogers, and what with players like Mar. gueritte Churchill and Greta Nissen supporting, the attraction is all the greater.

در جوانی

This picture opened ni the King's Theatre yesterday and drew capacity houses to all perform.

Actes,

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BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TEL. 25818

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The modern Babel laid bare! Where LIFES pum ping pulse beats time in double measure! Where anything might happen and docs, la

24

HOURS

a

Paramount Pletum

Based on Louis Bromfeld's

Novel

with CLIVE BROOK

Kay Francis Miriams Hopkins

Redis Toomey

Gable's Polo,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA.

Central.

HONG KONG

**Arrowsmith.”.

Queen's.

The Beggar Student."

K

Ambassador Bill."

World.

Parlon, Bedroom and Bath."

KOWLOON.

Star.

Kept Hhabaids."

Central.

COMING.

"Madonna of the Streets."

Siiride Flect."

Quoop'a."

Perfect Alibi."

"She Couldn's Say," "Tell England."

King's.

" Hours."

"The Magnifeent Lie."

World.

Star.

Strangers in Love." Pancers in the Dark."

Bilens Witness." To-morrow and To-morrow,"

"Humanity (Chinese film)... "Story of Kinngtae,"

(Part 2). :(Chinese Alm)..

"Sins of the Children."

GOSSIP & FACT.

has taken a farmhouse, which she is busy furnishing.

Clark Gable has been ordered not to play poio by the studio which Hardie Allbright has accompanied employs him. A group of actors her on a number of the expeditions were indignantly discussing the to the stores. pros and cons of the business,

Economy

Hollywood economy is reaching amazing heights 'of resourcefulness. When sending a boatload of actors to Greenland to film "Iceland" in Lyon replied three versions, English, French, and the important thing German, the company concerned in- sym-structed them to ranke a comedy en

Buster's Grouse.

"Why should Metro stop Gable. playing polo when they allow Wal lace Beery to fy an aeroplane?? Will Rogers, or "Mister Ambaa.

one man asked. sador Bill" is seen at his best and

"Well," Ben as the US Ambassador to Syb vania, Bonewhere in the Balkans, smoothly, he is entrusted with a job which about Beery's face is not its calls for much tact. The King of metry." the State has, according to his enemies, deserted his wife and the. The letter had been given him by Queen is left to carry on affairs of a German theatrical figure.

sinie with his young aon, the King, "I wns, J. discovered afterwards, who is barely eight years of age. The State, thanks to platting on being ribbed, Gering related to

the part of certain officials out to an interviewer, while on the Parn-profit by this sorry state of affairs, is thrown into grent disorder and mount set where he was directing it is when Ambassador Bill

tries his hand at patching up things Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Regis that all the fun comes in. Toomey, and Miriam Hopkins in Being an ex-cow-puncher, Bill is up 13 "court "21 Houre" The picture, inot very well timately etching the events which tiquette" but he manages to get into the good books of the Queen estrange and re-unite, lovers who while the little Boy King develops standa in the mutual guilt of a great liking for his American

murder accusation, will show at the King's Theatre, beginning next Wednesday.

Unfamiliar with the United States and speaking only a few words of English, Gering, found

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friend, who not only shows him the finer pointa, in the "ball game but also teaches him a point or two in using the lariat.

route, using the ship as the back- ground.

They will thus get four films on one journey. Stars and Steel.

Langham Productions are to make

Buster Keaton has joined the ranks of the discontented actere. He has quarrelled with his studio because, in "Speak Easily," they have given him the part of a unia British film about the steel in- versity professor who uses terribly dustry with Franklyn Dyall, John Stuart, Banita Hume and Heather long words.

Angel in the cast. George King will direct, and the picture will be made at Walton-on-Thames.

Buster doesn't know how he can juggle with tongue-twister and still keep solemn. Donald Cook's Mishap.

New Era Productions are to make: what they describe as a Rories of

Donaid Cook, who was badly"opics of industry," the first of

bed in a motor accident recent ly, is making a slow recovery.

His doctor announces that as a resuit of plastic surgery his face will not be permanently acarred. Love-In Hollywood I

-- "

which will deal with broadensting.

Arthur Elton, one of the young directors employed by the Empire Marketing Board, will be in charge of this production. Joan Wyndham..

The star's enthusian scegos also to have imbued the other members of the briliant cast. Lovely Mar. grite Churchill give what is easily one of the finest porform: the "great producer" running ances of her carcer. Greta Nieten third-rate burlesque show in Minthes her welcome return in this made The White Hell of Pitz nutive of British him players, Palu," has become engaged to his barely five feet in height with tiny and excentional talent in the persecretary, Elizabeth Eind, who will feet that rival Cinderella's. She

waukee.

film, which ́alad, beinga us new

PERFECT ALIBI"

AT QUEEN'S.

Nothing daunted, Gering want to non of eight-year-old Tad Alexan Chicago, where his technique in der, one of those rare children who is a master of pathos na well as Others who contributo stage production gained him a foot comedy. hold. He rapidly mastered Eng-heavily include Gustav von Seyffer ritz. Ray Milland. Arpold Korff and lish, already being fluent in Bas Ferdinand Munier. sian, Polish, German and French, and stormed the citadels of Broad-

When New York producer way. refused to entrust him with Ameri- -can-plays, he obtained, the sights. to "Skidding" and produced it himself, The play ran for a year. Ho next produces "Broken Dishes," a comedy of American life, and Broadway ceased to doubt the ability of the young Russian in any medium.

Gering is the author of a book un the American. theatre which is regarded as a standard work in

Russia

Signed by Paramount, he made his debut as a film director with I Take This Woman," featuring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard.

A REAL 'SHOCKER.

Dr. Arnold Finck, the man who

the Arctic to film "Iceberg.” accompany him on his voyage to Roberts Gale and Charles Carroll spending their days together acquiring a sua tan.

Joan Wyndham is the most "dim-

weighs only six and a half stone!

She finds it impossible to enumerato the number of times people have remarked on her striking resem blance to that popular, American Maureen O'Sullivan has made up

star to whom she is not related- her mind to stay in Hollywood, and Pauline Frederick,

•stage success. --On-the-screen it isers, even see the crime committed, said to be meeting with even greater suspense is built to fever pitch by acclaim,

the extraordinary manipulation of

It tells the dramatic story of two į plot which A. A. Milap has provid A trade notice states:-

criminals bent on vengeance against jed for the discovery and arrest of Crowds will be flocking to the the man who convicted them twentythe criminals. How it is done is Queen's Theatre for their share of five years before. Ingratiating the big thing in The Perfect the thrills and electrifying suspense acoupying the screen in the latest themselves into his home and con- Alibi," and audiences seem to rejish film shocker," The Perfect Alibi,"fidence, and trading on the fact the appeal to the mind which the when it opens this week.

that he fails to recognise them, they film offers. murder him and cover their tracks

Oqge Stage Bucoess.

with a perfectly manufactured But The Perfect Alibi "has This famous play, adapted and alibi. Each man's story hinges on more action then mental gymzaa- produced in England by Basil the movements and whereabouts of tics, according to reports. ↑ "Aid Dean for Associated Radio Pic- the other at the time of the grime there are some expeliens players in tures (BKO-Radio Pictures), Yan DM, Olater, Plot Bheantaires G it including C. Aubrey Smith, Although the audiedes is always Warwick Ward, Dorothy Boyd and awayé of the identity of the murder.

for two sensdae on Broadway an Continued at imalat meat column.)

Robert Loraine.

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